PS5 Outsells Switch 2 in the US in February 2026, Resident Evil Requiem Debuts in 1st - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted 5 days ago / 9,599 Views
The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling console in the US for February 2026 in terms of units sold and dollar sales, according to figures from Circana (formerly The NPD Group). Circana includes the dates for the four-week period of February 1 to 28.
The Nintendo Switch 2 was able to repeat its performance in January and came in second place in terms of units sold and dollar sales. After nine months on the market the Nintendo Switch 2 is tracking 45 percent ahead of the Nintendo Switch 1 despite its ninth month being November 2017.
The Nintendo Switch 2 was more than able to offset the declines in the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1 as hardware revenue increased 22 percent year-on-year. PS5 dollar sales were down 10 percent, while Xbox Series X|S was down 32 percent, and the Nintendo Switch 1 was down 69 percent.
The Xbox Series X|S was the third best-selling console for the month.
Overall spending on video games in February increased one percent year-on-year from $4.52 billion to $4.56 billion. Spending on video game content was down less than one percent from $4.03 billion to $4.02 billion, while video game hardware sales increase 22 percent from $267 million to $326 million. Spending on accessories decreased three percent from $220 million to $215 million.
In terms of 2026 total sales, overall spending on video games is up two percent year-on-year from $9.08 billion to $9.26 billion. Spending on video game content increased one percent from $8.18 billion to $8.28 billion, while video game hardware sales grew 19 percent from $480 million to $574 million. Spending on accessories decreased three percent from $415 million to $401 million.
"Resident Evil: Requiem debuted as the best-selling video game of 2026 as overall spending in February grew slightly when compared to a year ago, reaching $4.6 billion," said Circana Executive Director and Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella.
He added, "Resident Evil: Requiem’s blockbuster debut and a 27% boost in subscription services helped video game content spending stay flat when compared to February 2025. In hardware, Nintendo Switch 2 drove 22% year-on-year spending growth."
Resident Evil: Requiem debuted in first place in February and is the best-selling game of 2026 after its first month on the market. It was the best-selling game of the month on PlayStation, Xbox, and the aggregated PC storefront charts.
Dollar sales for the launch week of Resident Evil: Requiem were over 60 percent higher than 2021's Resident Evil: Village and over 40 percent higher in terms of units sold. This does not include bundled versions.
Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined debuted in seventh place in February and is the 14th best-selling game of 2026.
Other new games to debut in the top 20 includes Mario Tennis Fever in 11th place, God of War: Sons of Sparta in 14th place, My Hero Academia: All’s Justice in 17th place, and Resident Evil Generation Pack in 20th place.
Diablo II: Resurrected shot up the charts from 195th to 13th place in February. This was driven by the Steam release of Diablo II: Resurrected – Infernal Edition.
DOOM: The Dark Ages on the aggregated PC charts shot its way up from 92nd place to ninth place in February helped by the id Software Anniversary Sale promotional pricing on Steam.
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PS5 also has GTA6 coming!PS5 will win in the us this year, NS2 will take over soon , just need the next heavy hitters. ( animal crossing, Mario 3d, Smash bros ETC>
Mario Kart World has also spiked in the Nintendo eShop charts. Wondering if that's people who picked up the Mario Kart World bundle so they could play Pokopia.
Felt like there was potential for PS5 to have a big year as far as selling games this year. Been cool to see the world get behind Resident Evil on PS5.
not sure whats going on. this is my least favorite playstation. i love most of the resident evil games
From what I've been able to tell people who have multiple places to play games (rare) aren't enjoying PS5. The rest who only have one place to play games love it because they don't know anything else. I only have a PS5 and I love this gen. I have so much to play I can't keep up. It doesn't matter to me that a lot of these games are somewhere else. I don't have somewhere else to play them, I only have my PS5.
Not looking great for FF7 Remake, even with Hamaguchi trying to reassure people that it was selling well.
It's now out of the top 20 this month already and out of the top 10 in both Xbox and Nintendo charts. It's down to 15th on the yearly best sellers list and will likely be out of that by next month.
In Japan it was out of the top 30 a month later with around ~37k physical sales overall. Even at a budget price there is no legs for this game on those platforms. Rebirth likely will share the same fate.
Well it did come out in January... I know the "physical" units sold out since they came with the cards. Though I don't know how that is or isn't counted across the various charts vs the digital sales.
To be fair, even at $40, I would hardly call it a "budget price" considering it was a 6yo game already lol
I already own the game on PS5/PC, so I don't plan to pick it up on NS2 unless its $20 or less
Helldivers 2 being all the way up in 5th because of a content update is pretty wild, and that is just the sticker price--no microtransactions included.
The USA loves Helldivers.
February in the bag for Sony.
Switch 2 should be able to take march with Pokémon.
I think were currently seeing 2 things going on:
- Xbox players trickling over to PS5
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The currently lack of a "Must Have" exclusives for NS2 that targets a western audience
Xbox players leaving the ecosystem seems to be split between going to PS and PC, both of which are growing. While NS2 has some great games, it still has relatively few exclusives that are system sellers and, in my personal opinion, some of those would-be system sellers are duds. MKW comes to mind for me personally.
It seems MKWorld is struggling to maintain legs now that the NS2 bundle has reached its conclusion. My guess is that it’ll stay this way for a while— with so many Switch 2 already having purchased the game, the market of potential consumers is currently very small.
Glad to see DK doing so well though!
sales will continue to climb for DK (and MK) im sure we will see a follow up to DK in the future
DK was really good... but MKW kinda sucks imo
The MKWorld slander! Just you wait, once they drop that 200cc update with all the new characters and courses, this'll be considered as a true competitor with the likes of MKWii and MK8Deluxe.
Loved DK. Mario Kart World is getting better but, still not
bringing me the joy that Mario Kart 8 and DX did.
At least they tried something different.
Keep in mind, MK8 was incredibly bare-bones when it released on Wii U. MK8DX was the result of years of support. I'm enjoying MK World more at this stage of its life than I did MK8.
No it wasn't, it had all the content that you could expect from a Mario Kart at the time (minus a good battle mode, but I don't remember MKWii having that either), and the DLC doubled the content, and then DX quadrupled the content and added a good battle mode, and then DX got even more content from its own DLC.
8DX was basically the "everyone is here" of Mario Kart.
Resident Evil Requiem #1 on PS, Xbox, and PC. On Nintendo #2 combining the base game and generation pack losing to Mario. That's amazing for Capcom.
Helldivers 2 gets a boost due to Xbox and PC and not Playstation funny enough.
Dragon Quest looks like it sold best on Nintendo not shocking really.
Diablo 2 showing why you need to put PC games on Steam.
